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Daniel Benevides da Costa

 

 

Daniel Benevides da Costa received the BSc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) in 2003. He received the MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil, in 2006, where he is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree. Mr. da Costa is also a Student Member of the IEEE and acts as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences.

 

 

Education:

  • Present - Doctoral Student at State University of Campinas (Wireless Technology Laboratory)
  • 2004-2006 - MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering at State University of Campinas - UNICAMP - Brazil
  • 1999-2003 - BSc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Military Institute of Engineering - IME - Brazil

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Research Interest:

  • Propagation prediction models.
  • Channel modelling and simulation.
  • Diversity combining techniques.
  • Multihop communications and user cooperation diversity.
  • Wireless communications in general.

Academic Activities:

  • Aug. 2007 - Dec. 2007:
    • Teaching Assistant - "Introduction to the Eletromagnetic Theory" Course - Electrical Engineering at State University of Campinas (4 hours weekly).
  • Feb. 2007 - Jul. 2007:
    • Teaching Assistant - "Communications Laboratory" Course - Electrical Engineering at State University of Campinas (8 hours weekly).
  • Feb. 2005 - Jul. 2005:
    • Teaching assistant - "Mobile Communications" Course - Electrical Engineering at State University of Campinas (8 hours weekly).

Journal Publications:

Conference Publications:

  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and J. C. S. S. Filho, Simple accurate closed-form approximations for the crossing rates of Weibull fading channels in multibranch diversity systems, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), Orlando, Florida, USA, Jan., 2008 .
  • D. B. da Costa and M. D. Yacoub, A simple and accurate α-μ approximation to crossing rates in EGC and MRC receivers undergoing Nakagami-m fading, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa and M. D. Yacoub, On the second-order statistics of η-μ fading channels in diversity systems, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa and M. D. Yacoub, Channel capacity for single branch receivers operating in generalized fading scenarios, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa and M. D. Yacoub, Level crossing rates and average fade durations for multibranch diversity receivers operating on κ-μ fading channels, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and J. C. S. S. Filho, Taxa de cruzamento de nível e duração média de desvanecimento para canais α-μ usando técnicas de combinação por diversidade, in Anais do XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Recife, PE, Brazil, Sep. 2007 (in Portuguese).
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and J. C. S. S. Filho, Estatísticas de segunda ordem para canais de desvanecimento η-μ: teoria e aplicações , in Anais do XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Recife, PE, Brazil, Sep. 2007 (in Portuguese).
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and J. C. S. S. Filho, Simple accurate closed-form approximations for outage probability of equal-gain and maximal-ratio receivers over α-μ (generalized gamma) fading channels, in Proceedings of 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa and M. D. Yacoub, The η-μ joint phase-envelope distribution, in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Hong Kong, China, Mar. 2007.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and G. Fraidenraich, Second-order statistics for the envelope and phase of η-μ generalized fading channels, in Proceedings of IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), Fortaleza, Brazil, Sep. 2006.
  • U. S. Dias, M. D. Yacoub, J. C. S. S. Filho, G. Fraidenraich, and D. B. da Costa, On the Nakagami-m autocorrelation and power spectrum functions: field trials and validation, in Proceedings of IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), Fortaleza, Brazil, Sep. 2006.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and G. Fraidenraich, Second-order statistics of equal-gain and maximal-ratio combining for the α-μ (generalized gamma) fading distribution, in Proceedings of IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA), Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 2006.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, G. Fraidenraich, J. R. Mendes, and J. C. S. S. Filho, Generalized Nakagami-m phase crossing rate, in Anais do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Campinas, SP, Brazil, Sep. 2005
  • U. S. Dias, M. D. Yacoub, G. Fraidenraich, J. C. S. S. Filho, and D. B. da Costa, On the Weibull autocorrelation and power spectrum functions: field trials and validation, in Anais do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Campinas, SP, Brazil, Sep. 2005.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and G. Fraidenraich, Generalized phase crossing rate and random FM noise for Weibull fading channels, in Proceedings of IEEE International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 2005.
  • D. B. da Costa, M. D. Yacoub, and G. Fraidenraich, Second-order statistics for diversity-combining of non-identical, unbalanced, correlated Weibull signals, in Proceedings of IEEE International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 2005.